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At the Making Cents International’s Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference, the youth and ICTs panel mentioned a few of the many areas where new technologies can be integrated in youth development work.

Read Twitter highlights from the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference

Dr. Bajwa explains that it is time to start building linkages between new players and existing microfinance networks.

This blog post was written by Christian Pennotti, Learning and Impact Technical Advisor at CARE, following the "Understanding the Intangibles: Trust, Risk, Leadership, and Transparency in Value Chain Partnerships" Breakfast Seminar on November 4, 2011.

During the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, Lisa Kuhn Fraioli of Freedom from Hunger explains how organizations are looking at microenterprise development and microfinance as tools to help clients.

Following his presentation at the the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, Dr. Sankar Datta, Dean of the Livelihood School set up by BASIX India, discusses how the microfinance industry has recently focused only on finance, overlooking technical assistance and institutional services. Datta reminds practitioners that we are not here to tap the market at the bottom of the pyramid, but actually to help the poor augment their income by providing financial services which includes not only credit, but also savings, remittances, pensions, and insurance —  the whole bundle.

Debora Randall, independent consultant based in Kigali, Rwanda, discusses how the SEEP Conference brings together the worlds of business and development.

Following the media roundtable at the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, Kate Druschel Griffin of Grameen Foundation's Solutions for the Poorest program discusses issues Grameen faced at the start of their program.

Ning Tang of CreditEase provides key takeaways from his presentation at After Hours Seminar #57, "Overview of Microfinance Markets and Investment Opportunities in Russia and China"

This blog further explores the microfinance environment in Russia and work of the Russian Microfinance Center

CreditEase is China’s first, and now the biggest, peer-to-peer microcredit platform working with the unbanked in China.

Can diasporas really serve as bridges to global markets for their countries of origin? A closer look at tourism and trade during the fifth Diaspora Engagement Seminar seems to imply exactly that. Dr. Manuel Orozco from the Inter-American Dialogue and Dr. Gaynelle Henderson-Bailey, President of Henderson Travel Service, were featured in this month’s seminar titled, "Heritage Tourism and Nostalgia Trade.”

Maria Stephens, Senior Technical Advisor at USAID, introduces the new Mobile Financial Services Seminar Series from the USAID Microenterprise Development office.

Muhammad Siddiquee of CARE provides key takeaways from his presentation during Breakfast Seminar #64, "Understanding the Intangibles: Trust, Risk, Leadership, and Transparency in Value Chain Partnerships." In this video, he discusses the importance of understanding the intangibles in value chain partnerships, particularly when influencing behavior changes and scale-up interventions.

During the media roundtable at the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, Rosita Najmi of Financial Acces @ Birth discussed this social and economic innovation that seeks financial inclusion for newborns in the developing world.

Mark Egerman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Christopher Hencke of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation share key takeaways from the recent Mobile Financial Services Seminar.

Maria Stephens provides an overview of the Mobile Financial Services Seminar series and frames the discussion on deposit insurance and consumer risks within a broader financial systems context.

What one almost never expects is the dance that Malian mothers do to support their families during this time.

Key takeaways from Milford Bateman

Christian Pennotti of CARE provides key takeaways from his presentation during Breakfast Seminar #64.

Early in December, The SEEP Network hosted an online discussion on its blog to discuss recent data collection efforts by the Microfinance Information Exchange. The online conversation centered on financial inclusion in Africa.

In this video, David Roodman reflects on the recent debate and shares both its successes and challenges.

In this video, Milford Bateman expands on his points and shares key takeaways from the debate.

SEEP published a paper that highlights key themes important to industry leaders and will help form the learning agenda for a initiative called STEP UP: Strengthening The Economic Potential of the Ultra Poor.

This article summarized the main arguments both for and against the further push to implement mobile technologies for poverty reduction.